An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Mind and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which is Prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind |
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Page 42
... officer , his intimate companion , and to whom , before their quarrel , he had often done the greatest favours . " 53. Her worthy father bears her death , as he has often told us a Christian should . He is even so composed as to be now ...
... officer , his intimate companion , and to whom , before their quarrel , he had often done the greatest favours . " 53. Her worthy father bears her death , as he has often told us a Christian should . He is even so composed as to be now ...
Page 44
... officers who had lived in his family . To arrive at the redoubt it passed within view of the greatest part of both armies . 2. General Phillips , General Reidesel , and myself , who were standing together , were struck with the humility ...
... officers who had lived in his family . To arrive at the redoubt it passed within view of the greatest part of both armies . 2. General Phillips , General Reidesel , and myself , who were standing together , were struck with the humility ...
Page 46
... officers , major Harnage and lieutenant Reynell ; but in the event , their presence served but little for comfort . Major Harnage was soon brought to the surgeons , very badly wounded ; and a little time after came intelligence that ...
... officers , major Harnage and lieutenant Reynell ; but in the event , their presence served but little for comfort . Major Harnage was soon brought to the surgeons , very badly wounded ; and a little time after came intelligence that ...
Page 48
... officer , na- med Irwin , incautiously suffered themselves , from a spirit of false emulation , to be engaged in firing at a mark . No- thing could have been more repugnant to the military prin- ciples of Putnam than such conduct , or ...
... officer , na- med Irwin , incautiously suffered themselves , from a spirit of false emulation , to be engaged in firing at a mark . No- thing could have been more repugnant to the military prin- ciples of Putnam than such conduct , or ...
Page 49
... officers and men behaved with great bravery : sometimes they fought aggregately in open view , and sometimes individually under cover ; taking aim from behind the bodies of trees , and acting in a manner in- dependent of each other . 8 ...
... officers and men behaved with great bravery : sometimes they fought aggregately in open view , and sometimes individually under cover ; taking aim from behind the bodies of trees , and acting in a manner in- dependent of each other . 8 ...
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